What you can do right away: 10 tips You can listen to what people have to say, or you just stop listening and start acting and have fun doing it. Save the world: With these ten steps you can start right away: Think for yourself Finally trust your own feelings and recognize the large theatre…

$50 Billion per Year Cost for CO2 Reduction

U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, reports that the EPA’s plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will cost the American economy more than $50 billion a year between now and 2030.

MasseReaction’s ViPAR CAN PREVENT MERCURY REGS FROM SHUTTERING ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS The EPA’s Mercury Air and Toxics Standards will force the closure of more coal power plants than will the climate change rules set forward for CO2 emissions. The advancement in technologies for efficiency of power plants vis a vis the 2005 emissions standard, have…

EPA Deputy resigns to lead Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Bob Perciasepe, the Deputy EPA director has accepted the head post at C2ES -The Center for Climate and Energy C2ES, is the successor to the Pew Center for Climate Change. C2ES seeks to find renewable energy sources while respecting impact on climate change.

Coal Power rises to new high Late June 2014 in Germany, the demand for coal reaches the highest level since 2010 when 8 nuclear power plants were shutdown following the Fukushima disaster. Coal being cheap and abundant is the second biggest energy source on planet earth.40 percent of the world electricity is generated through coal.…

Electric plane E-fan takes off Many pioneers these days are creating a new breed of aircraft – all electric. In April, 2014 Airbus presented the plane – called E-fan. It is a small two-seater prototype and already made a successful demonstration flight. The idea for this prototype with a sustainable electric propulsion systemis to reduce…

U.S. Congress House Appropriations Committee De-Funds EPA: 29-19 A committee report on the 2015 Appropriations Bill identified EPA targeted programs with “unattainable” technology goals as: “EPA’s proposed standards for new power plants which assume carbon capture and storage technologies that are not commercially available and scalable.” The bill under the same category also targets EPA’s…

Should U.S. export Fracking to China? With an administration claiming to be the “environmental” leader in America, it is a difficult journey to follow; one that ends in fracking as the safe, green, nature and people friendly way to augment fuel production. Should we be exporting this and all of it’s unknown/unproven ramifications abroad? U.S.…

NASA lauches Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Mission This new satellite observer is NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to making space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Which is the principal human-produced driver of climate change. It will be a new science mission to Earth which will have the accuracy, resolution and coverage needed to provide more data about…

Watch an interview with Peter Sinclair on Renewable Energy Peter Sinclair is a YouTube blogger from Midland, Michigan who was formerly a cartoonist. He is perhaps best known for producing the “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” series on his YouTube channel, Greenman3610. We found this video on YouTube from the Real News. Resources: “This…

Obama proposes 30% cut to carbon emissions The Obama administration proposed regulations on Monday that would seek to reduce greenhouse gas or carbon emissions from power plants to 30% below 2005 levels by 2020. The proposed rules, dubbed the “Clean Power Plan,” are based on the White House’s executive powers under the Clean Air Act…